News with the tag "Federal Bureau of Investigation"

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is taking action to address the growing problem of pig butchering. Pig butchering is a fraudulent crypto scheme where bad actors build relationships and gain the trust of their victims to later encourage them to invest in fake investment opportunities. The F...

In September 2024, stablecoin liquidity hit record highs. Meanwhile, JPMorgan analysts predicted further Bitcoin gains, citing October’s historical “Uptober” trend. The FBI made headlines by charging 18 individuals involved in crypto fraud after setting up a fake crypto operation. Economist Peter Sc...

The FBI is warning job seekers not to fall for the too-good-to-be-true “work-from-home” job scams.

A Bitcoin Core developer meeting has come under the FBI’s scrutiny. Mike Schmidt, Director at Brink—a charitable organization that funds open-source developers—has revealed in an email to attendees of the CoreDev Atlanta 2022 that the FBI issued a subpoena demanding information on those who were par...

Three men duped New York-area banks into shelling out more than $10 million and tried to make off with the money by converting it to crypto, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Thursday in a statement.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is issuing a warning to investors saying that criminals are posing as developers of non-fungible token (NFT) projects in crypto phishing scams. In a new public service announcement, the FBI says that bad actors are depicting themselves as legitimate NFT deve...